Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Is Someone Listening? #SOL21

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He's listening. He's always listening." 

I hear these words in the back of my mind all the time. Who is listening you ask? Well, I don't really know, but it is quite troublesome.

Last week my husband's toe was hurting, and after researching on the Intenet, he seemed to think it was gout. He wrote beets down on our grocery list. (While searching, he also found that beets would help gout!) He then asked, "Do they make beet juice?"

"I have no idea, but I will look," I said to pacify him.

I "searched" at the store and told him, "Nope didn't see any beat juice."

"He's listening. He's always listening."

The next day as I was scrolling through Facebook, guess what came up in my feed. Yep! Beet juice. I never searched for it on my computer, but there it was. This greatly troubles me. Are people listening to my conversations? Can they hear me through my phone or my computer?

My husband did search for it on his computer, so I guess maybe if the search is at least in our house, it could possibly show up on my computer?

But, I still feel like someone is listening.

This is just one of several advertisements
that popped up on my feed.

6 comments:

  1. I've had similar experiences and it is really uncomfortable!

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  2. Yes, I have searched for things and then suddenly they start appearing in me feeds. Scary.

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  3. Yes, I have searched for things and then suddenly they start appearing in me feeds. Scary.

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  4. Leigh Anne, I can absolutely resonate with this. It can be rather unnerving to be honest.

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  5. I recently search Amazon for pizza loving Valentine shirts for my grandchildren - to no avail. The next day, they popped up in a Target Facebook ad...no kidding....chills...

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  6. The power of sending wishes to the universe. And Google.

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